Shoe last



Jan. 15, 1924. 1,481,029

B. Ross SHOE LAST Filed Aug.' 30. 1922 L provide a shoe last of a simple,

Patented Jan. 15, 1924.

STATES' I BENJAMIN ROSS, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SHOE LAST.

Application tiled August 30, 1922. Serial No. 585,227.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN Ross, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Shoe Last, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a class of devices adapted to be used in conjunction with the work of making footwear for persons.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a. last designed to be employed in the manufactureof a boot or shoe for a person especially of a form wherein the typ'e of shank piece disclosed in my application for a patent, Sr. No. 491,726, filed August 12, 1921. may be riveted to the sole of the :i shoe or boot by a second head member being provided on the driven end of the shank of the rivet following its passage through registered holes in the sole and in the shank piece for preventing vpremature damage to the last when these parts of the footwear are fastened together. The invention resides mainly in the provision on the underside or tread face of a shoe last at the juncture of its foot and shank portions of an anviled element or metal plate so that a second head will be formed on the driving end of the shank of a. soft metal rivet when driven into contact with the element.

A further object of the invention is to efiicient and durable construction which may be made in any suitable shape and size. y 'With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more fully described with reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the views, and will then be pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In thedrawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form of shoe last embodying my invention. v

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the device, and

Fi 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view, showing a detail section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

The device or last has a body with a foot portion 11, a shank portion 12 and a heel portion 13 which may be of any appropriate material in .any suitable size and shape, though I prefer to make the last of wood. The last maybe of aform having its heel portion 13 of substantially a partia spherical shape, by providing curved enlargements, as 14, 15, on the opposite sides of the heel portion as well as providing a curved enlargement, as 16, on the rear of the heel and providing a curved enlargement, kas 17, on the underside of the heel, in order to mold a partial spherical concavity in the heel part within the .shoe or boot when made by the use of the last. However, forms of the last may be made wherein all of these enlargements may be dispensed with, or wherein one or two of thel enlargements may be employed as occaslon may require.

The last is also preferably designed to enable the type of improved shank piece, hereinbefore mentioned, to be elfectually applied to the form of shoe or boot made on the last, and to accomplish this, an anviled element, as 18, is provided. This anviled element is preferably in the form of hard metal fla-t plate, as 19, which may be of an oval or other shape, and protruding from the central part of one face of the plate is a pin, or lug or. post, as 20. The plate and post of the anviled element are countersunken in the underside of the body 10 of the last at the juncture of the foot portion 11 with the shank portion 12 so that the fiat face of the plate opposite to the post is flush with the underside of the last.

The anviled element is also positioned on` the last so that when a rivet of'soft or malleable metal is driven through a hole in the shank piece, as explained .in the above mentioned application for patent, the driven end of the rivetwill contact with the plate 19 of the anviled element for securing the shank piece and soletogether by a second head being provided on the rivet. I am aware that forms` of shoe lasts are made with metal plates on their heel portions and on their shank portions to turn the points of nails when driven through the sole of a shoe or boot lduring its manufacture, but as such plates conform infcurvature to the curved underside of the last they will not serve to accomplish the purpose of the anviled element 18 of my present invention, because. of tending to bend the driving end of a rivet instead of forming on the rivet the necessary second head.

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of my invention,

but I do not ing myself t cations' may be par-tin? any o the therefore, I

from the make such changes as fairly fall withln the scope thereof.

Having t claim as new C, hus described my invention, I

and desire to secure by Letters Patent e 1. A shoe last having a. body with a foot portion, a shank portion and a heel portlon,

and a fiat plate element on the curved underside of last at the juncture of its shank portion with the sole portion thereof.,

2. A shoe last having 'a body portion with a foot portion, a shank portion and a heel 20 portion and a flat plate with a protruding; post on one of its faces, said post and plate being counter-sunk in the underside of the last at the juncture of its shank portion with the soie portion thereof. 25 This specification signed and witnessed this 29 day of August' A. D. 1922.

BENJAMIN Ross.

Witnesses D. MAGUIRE, J. FREDERICK CRYER. 

